Odell, Oregon

Hood River County

The unincorporated City of Odell is located south of Hood River in Hood River County, just west of Highway 35. Major local attractions include the Hood River County Fairgrounds and the Mt. Hood National Forest. Major local industries are timber and fruit-packing; the surrounding orchards of the Hood River Valley are among the world's leading producers of pears and apples. Source: The Dalles Chronicle.

This is a well-known community in the middle Hood River Valley. It was named for William Odell, who settled nearby as early as 1861, and whose son, Milton D. Odell, was the first white child born in the valley. Roswell Shelley started a store at Odell and applied the present name. William Odell was a native of Tennessee. Milton Odell was born in 1863. A news item in the Hood River Glacier, Oct. 14, 1932, cites Mrs. Troy Shelley as authority for the statement that the name of the town was originally suggested by S.F. Blythe, the pioneer editor of the Glacier. Post office records show that when the post office was established in June 1910, it was first called Newtown. The name was changed to Odell in Mar. 1911. The name Newtown did not refer to Hood River's famous apple, but to the new settlement that sprang up at the railroad station about three-quarters of a mile southeast of the old crossroads.-- Source: Oregon Geographic Names, Sixth Edition, 1992, Lewis L. McArthur, Oregon Historical Society Press, ISBN O-87595-237-2.

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